Re: Debugging python scripts called by LyX

2006-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
on the list to make sure this is a wise thing to do. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid

Re: diff within Lyx and OpenOffice with styles

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Litt
seen. They just magically change and disappear. If you're doing more than writing a letter, I'd recommend against OpenOffice. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: Image on the Titlepage

2007-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
of the frontmatter, it doesn't do what I need. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: can´t send mail to the list

2007-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Wolfgang, I think you and I are probably the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn't doubt that many potentially excellent sources of LyX information for the community have just given up. Who knows, some of these people might have the skills of Herbert Voss or Dekl Tsur or JMarc, and we're blowing

Re: can´t send mail to the list

2007-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
through their universities. I would be one such. Chris Menzel Thanks Chris, I'm not a decisionmaker in the project, but I hope the powers that be take you up on your generous offer. Thank you! SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: diff within Lyx and OpenOffice with styles

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
is so much cleaner. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: can´t send mail to the list

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Wolfgang, I think you and I are probably the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn't doubt that many potentially excellent sources of LyX information for the community have just given up. Who knows, some of these people might have the skills of Herbert Voss or Dekl Tsur or JMarc, and we're blowing

Re: Fixed?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 15:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please check (just couple of you) if all is working well as far as posting to the list goes. Máté This was sent, via Earthlink, 18:37 on 11/6/2007. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

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2007-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
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test 18:43, earthlink

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: Fixed?

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Litt
alert you if there are emails about a problem. Thanks again for fixing the problem! SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Fwd: Re: Fixed?

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Mate, Apparently Wolfgang still cannot post... Thanks SteveT -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Fixed? Date: Wednesday 07 November 2007 07:19 From: Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Litt l [EMAIL PROTECTED], lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Am Dienstag, 6. November

Re: layout file not applicable

2007-11-12 Thread Steve Litt
added in is the culprit -- continue narrowing it down. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: importing LaTeX

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Jim, It's kinda wierd that this LaTeX was written by something having to do with literate programming. The \SkipToFmtEnd following the closing parenthese of the test for definition of lhs2tex.lhs2tex.sty.read looks to the LaTeX-untrained eye like it's conditional, but in fact it gets run

Re: Fwd: Re: Fixed?

2007-11-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 16 November 2007 03:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2007 07:45 schrieben Sie: So you still cannot post?? Máté This is another trial to post a mail to the Lyx User group. Wolfgang I see this Wolfgang. Congratulations! SteveT

Re: compare book classes

2007-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
that the right document class (and the right packages) can do you the most good. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Can't turn off numbering in TOC

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 08:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using the Book class. I want to turn off the page numbering for TOC. The Contents list extends over two pages. I've put \thispagestyle{empty} after Tableofcontents, but the Table appears with 3 on the first page though the second

Re: embedding or linking a sound file in a Powerdot PDF

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
What an ultra-cool idea! I'd love to embed a sound file in each of my Ebooks. SteveT On Wednesday 28 November 2007 08:09, Graham Smith wrote: Apologies if this is obvious, but is it possible to embed a sound file into a PDF when using PowerDot. In the Adobe world this is only available as

Re: How to change the positions of items in title page?

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
or modifying the document class. To me, the document class should be used for mainmatter, where consistency is essential. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting

Re: confused about margins with 2 sided docs

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
be looking at things wrong. An explanation would be appreciated. Thanks, I've had that happen to me, so I just unchecked the default margins checkbox and put in the margins I wanted, and that solved the problem. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

Re: LyX to PDF

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
, etc., because they could be embedded. I've never understood how to install a font for use with LyX/LaTeX. Where are there instructions? Is it possible to install Windows fonts Times New Roman and Arial for use with LyX/LaTeX, and how would it be done? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 28 December 2007 17:18, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Hi, I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Cheers and

How do you handle definition lists?

2007-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
usually put such glossaries? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Reminder of otl2lyx.awk

2007-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
to LyX, I can continue to handle my document as an outline within LyX. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
are available.. Later, when writing and formatting capabilities are most important, LyX is used, with the advantage that some outlining capabilities are still retained. Stay tuned... SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining

Re: Compose keys again

2007-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
a way to deliver keycodes? If so, in which module does that capability reside? I need that capability for another piece of software I'm writing. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 03 January 2008 04:56, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) That's very acceptable in an outline mode of bookwriting software, because you have body text in normal mode. In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock

Re: Lulu page margins confusion

2008-01-05 Thread Steve Litt
might be using Lulu with LyX generated content soon myself. Tell me how it works out for you. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Landscape document: what am I missing?

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Litt
/linux/gs.htm#_Making_a_Landscape_PDF SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Litt
have too many needless interactions with other programs (like dcop server, gimme a break), needlessly causing crashiness and other problems. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: Number of LaTeX runs

2008-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
-f $1.toc lyx --export latex $1.lyx HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing but a missing symlink, but with an error message like that, I can't tell. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 13:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't have QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's nothing but a missing symlink, but with an error message like

Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
]$ Back when we had xforms as an option, I could easily compile LyX. OK yeah it wasn't as pretty as QT, but it worked and got the job done, and at least I could use a LyX newer and more featureful than my Linux distro. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better ugly than uncompileable. SteveT

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: Hi Pavel, if you havent install it globally you cant use I don't understand what you mean. What do I need to install globally to use it? How does one install it globally? --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. I

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 16:58, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. Qt4 gives more possibility to use on non-Unix and even non-X11 systems. Qt4 has better support for internationalization and many other user interface

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a couple years ago. actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and I think it's

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 but change the path accordingly. I don't understand what you mean. where do you have libraries of qt4 now ? Depending on the meaning of the question, either /usr/lib/qt4 or /usr/lib/qt4/lib.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 18 February 2008 19:54, Pavel Sanda wrote: But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I don't think that's too much to ask. One could counter that if I used Debian I could just apt-get install the whole thing. Well I don't use Debian -- I like

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
have no qt3 devel stuff left. pj On Feb 18, 2008 3:39 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended like this: make all-recursive make[6]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but that's just too much to expect from a user. No offense intended Steve

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
that the developers can use the latest and greatest Qt instead of providing compatibility with a couple year old version (Qt 4 came out summer 2005, but Qt 4.2 is much newer), they should go somewhere else. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go down

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 01:22, you wrote: Nobody cautioned you yet in this thread. Delete the source tree and untar a fresh copy before re-setting the environment and re-running configure. Otherwise, same old mistakes just happen again and again. I did this recompile myself a few weeks

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 08:40, you wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My one remaining problem is that the fonts on the menu, scrollbars and dialog boxes are too small for me to read. I'll be looking up how to make them larger in the next few days. Try to run qtconfig

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 17:45, Micha wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:39:12 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So for example you applaud if microsoft decides that each and every software they issue will be restricted to run only on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
saying why. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 07:47, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Makes perfect sense to me, and I couldn't have said it better myself. A person should not have to upgrade their distro every few months in order to compile the latest apps. If you want to compile the very _latest_

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. What do you mean? JMarc UIC4=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic \ MOC4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:48, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why. make

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph? I couldn't find them in wikipedia. Try here: http

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 22 February 2008 11:25, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 22 February 2008 02:21, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 18:27, James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to automate adminition blocks? James What is an admonition block or admonition paragraph

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 22 February 2008 03:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months Age of distro when installed: 4 months Time between distro upgrades 24 months

Re: Admonition paragraphs

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 24 February 2008 11:04, James Mansion wrote: Steve Litt wrote: The following is part of my layout file for Learn Vim Tonight: Use the Worlds Most Productive Editor Tomorrow. Note that these snippits don't include Preamble/endpreamble. Thanks, I'll have a play with this. I'm

Character styles in 1.5

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
is chooseable from the document class field of the document settings dialog box, but I could find no way to invoke my special character styles. How do I invoke my character styles? The documentation didn't help. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques

LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
(emph and noun) as LyX-provided character styles, and stuff from the text style dialog as text fine tuning. That way the documentation will be much clearer to newbie and expert alike. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
U guys want me to write a very short doc, for the LyX Project to include in the HELP menu, about character styles? SteveT On Sunday 24 February 2008 13:57, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, The documents under the help menu for 1.5.3 use the phrase character style in two very different contexts

Otl2LyX shellscript

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
be manually fixed within LyX. So the conversion looks like this: otl2lyx.awk level_environment.table rjust_book.otl | ./emph.sh body.lyx Vim body.lyx shell.lyx I hope this helps someone :-) SteveT SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: LyX 1.5.3 character style documentation problem

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 24 February 2008 14:27, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Perhaps in future documentation versions we should call what I call character styles as user defined character styles, stuff from the buttons (emph and noun) as LyX-provided character styles, and stuff from the text style

Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
they use, so that you all can be aware of this little gotcha. Or, if it's only happening on my system, maybe we can exploit the differences to find out why. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales

Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:44, Les Denham wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come first. bug2.lyx works (after

Needed documentation

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Litt
to register * Confusion between LyX code and LaTeX code * LaTeX code is case sensitive, LyX code isn't Perhaps others can add to the list and we can write the document. Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Litt
. Most LyX behaviors are reasonable, as long as the user expects them. I've responded in the following: On Monday 25 February 2008 11:49, you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: You know what would be good documentation? The 25 Biggest Surprises in LyX and How to Work With Them. Sounds like an excellent

Ref+Text wording in Ebook

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Litt
setting. I couldn't find anything in LyX's Tools-Preferences system to change it. Most apps go up one screen minus one line (or down one screen minus one line) when you click inside the scrollbar, so this behavior is unexpected. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX

Unexpected unordered list behavior

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts surprise_153_softreturn_in_list.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:31, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, You know what would be good documentation? The 25 Biggest Surprises in LyX and How to Work With Them. It's basically a FAQ with potential landmines and how to avoid/workaround them. I'll start out

Re: sorting list

2008-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
to the clipboard from LyX or the PDF or whatever shows the inline formula appropriately. Then do this: cat | sort junk.jnk Then copy junk.jnk into your LyX file using the proper formula or whatever. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Could somebody please put the Wiki Stub in the proper place and post its location on the list? Then the rest of us can write the documentation. Here you go, http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ

Re: Needed documentation

2008-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
a table column a width. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread Steve Litt
on my part, but I'd suspect your PDF conversion is working but your PDF reader isn't. There's a way to tell LyX what to use as a PDF reader. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: problem with RevTeX and setspace package

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
file: Input stdclass.inc Format 2 That's helped me out of similar situations. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Insert-minipage?

2008-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document. I went to the Insert menu and couldn't see minipage anywhere. Didn't there used to be an Insert-minipage option to insert a minipage? If so, where has it gone? Thanks SteveT Steve

Re: Insert-minipage?

2008-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 03 March 2008 18:37, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document. I went to the Insert menu and couldn't see minipage

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
or not the default values *should* produce the right result, I'd recommend strongarming it. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: new lines disappearing in program listings

2008-03-04 Thread Steve Litt
the LyXCode environment? The former isn't easily visible in the LyX environment, the latter is. The former is ERT, the latter isn't. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: Layout questions

2008-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
. Is it possible to make the chapters in the table of content link to the places in the document where the chapters are located? This is not as important though, just a cool feature! B-) I think that automatically happens if you do this: lyx -e pdf lyxfilename.lyx SteveT Steve Litt Books written

Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts spacebug.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Please confirm your message

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 07 March 2008 16:00, rgheck wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Annabelle Sack schrieb: 1. wie zentriere ich Grafiken? Die meisten Grafiken, die ich in den Fließtext eingebunden habe, sind zentriert. Andere wieder nicht, obwohl ich an der Einstellungs nichts geändert habe-was

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 07 March 2008 16:37, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces or other characters are added inside the insets. I'm using

Safety from data reorganization?

2008-03-09 Thread Steve Litt
? Pardon me while I reorganize my latest book version with guidance from the structure of the 5 day old backup... SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

2008-03-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

2008-03-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:09, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

2008-03-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 10 March 2008 07:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom

How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Steve Litt
some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 10 March 2008 17:41, Filippo Zangheri wrote: Steve Litt ha scritto: Hi all, Hi, Steve, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13

Re: Safety from data reorganization?

2008-03-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 07:09, Helge Hafting wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Steve Litt
, send mail, and reply. So I can read my LyX-Users email with Kmail, while you're newgrouping it from gmane. To do this, someone would need to link gmane with [EMAIL PROTECTED] SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty

How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-11 Thread Steve Litt
? Is there a way to implement a stack in either LaTeX or LyX? It would be cool to push the current font, and then pop it when I'm done. That way I could nest these things. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I used to know this but forgot and couldn't quickly find it in my book. In LaTeX, how do I find the current value of the font, so when I set something to \tiny and then want to reset it to what it was, I

Re: How to save the current font in LaTeX?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:27, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: I'll do that if I can't find the command containing the current font, but \begingroup and \endgroup don't nest. My real hope was to implement a stack, push the current font on the stack, set the new font, write

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works. Andre' Or, you can make your own list environment: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales

How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Steve Litt
occurrences of ssh, and there are also many other specific strings that need to be universally marked with the charcode character style, so doing it manually is a poor alternative. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist

Re: Best font for printed output

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Litt
rivaling Vim vs Emacs (I'm a Vim man myself). SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Pasting iffy in LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Litt
and paste is implemented poorly in Linux, but it's usually not this bad. Is there any way to improve interprogram cut and paste in LyX? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: I need the trick, please

2008-03-15 Thread Steve Litt
or whatever, and find the counter name, and set it to 5. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

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